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Press Release: Bboxx To Bring Clean Energy to 2 Million People in Burkina Faso With Geocoton Advens Group Joint Venture
Bboxx, a next generation utility, is partnering via a first-of-a-kind joint venture with Geocoton Advens Group as part of Bboxx’s market entry into Burkina Faso.
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- Energy, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: How Blockchain Can Help in Africa’s Fight Against COVID-19 and Future Disease Outbreaks
The youthful populations of Africa and their embrace of the opportunities blockchain has to offer could help the continent in the fight against COVID-19 and future epidemics.
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- Coronavirus
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- blockchain
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South Africa’s Khula Closes $1.3 Million Seed To Scale Its Software-for-Agriculture Platform
Inadequate financing, education and input distribution persist, but startups such as Khula are providing innovative solutions to these problems.
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- Agriculture, Education, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- startups
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Airtel Africa Scoops Another $200 Million for Mobile Money Business
Airtel Mobile Commerce is working to own and operate the mobile money businesses across all of Airtel Africa’s 14 operating countries.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Babban Gona, Nigeria’s Social Enterprise Firm Gets $5 Million IFAD Loan
The loan will help Babban Gona support 377,000 small-scale rice and maize producers in Nigeria with a comprehensive package of training, quality inputs, and marketing services.
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- Agriculture, Social Enterprise
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: CDC Group Announces $50 Million Trade Finance Facility With Ecobank As Part of Its COVID-19 Response
This marks CDC’s first partnership with EBISA with the commitment aimed at providing systemic liquidity to underserved markets and crucial trade finance support to local banks and businesses across Africa.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Innovative Financing Secures 28 New Minigrids in Nigeria
These 28 distributed renewable energy (DRE) systems, designed as solar PV and battery-powered minigrids, aim to connect 55,000 people to electricity in rural areas.
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Egyptian Social E-Commerce Startup Taager Closes $6.4 Million Seed Round
Egyptian social e-commerce startup Taager has raised a US$6.4 million seed funding round to help it scale its platform and expand across the Middle East.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- e-commerce, scale, startups
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